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Dress worn by Dinah Shore
on her television show in the 1950s
Dramatic Arts
Some objects within the exhibition are placed on the border of two categories and can participate equally in both. The category changes our relationship to the object. Dinah Shore's dress, located between the Tools and Instruments section and the Commemoration section, is both a tool for the drama department (used and worn) and an object of commemoration (enshrined and protected).
The discovery of intriguing objects such as the Dinah Shore dress and the Tyrannosaurus rex skull revealed the often unexplored richness of university collections. It also led to the unofficial title for the Microcosms exhibition: "From Dinosaur to Dinah Shore."
